Your ADVANCE button should now jump 30sec instead of to the next tick mark. Sometimes you have enter the sequence a few times to make it "stick". Press the buttons at the same pace as it takes to say the words.

Is there a way to skip commercials without having to use the fast forward button?

Why would you want to do that?

Advertisers proffer programming to you in exchange for your agreed-to exposure to their included commercials. You are bound by an implied contract by having chosen to watch the programming in the first place.

If you don't like that idea, don't watch the programming. Your choice.

The same programming, with commercials not included, is almost always available for a price, at a later time. The programming has a greater dollar value without the commercials and you are not paying fair value for the programming under those terms, therefore you have no right to circumvent them.

Obviously no one's restricting your right to bathroom or kitchen breaks, and there is as yet no quiz on the commercials' content should your attention wander. But deliberately employing circumventing mechanisms such as the (soon to be outlawed) fast forward button is not in the spirit of your responsibility to the advertisers.

Advertisers proffer programming to you in exchange for your agreed-to exposure to their included commercials. You are bound by an implied contract by having chosen to watch the programming in the first place.

If you don't like that idea, don't watch the programming. Your choice.

The same programming, with commercials not included, is almost always available for a price, at a later time. The programming has a greater dollar value without the commercials and you are not paying fair value for the programming under those terms, therefore you have no right to circumvent them.

Obviously no one's restricting your right to bathroom or kitchen breaks, and there is as yet no quiz on the commercials' content should your attention wander. But deliberately employing circumventing mechanisms such as the (soon to be outlawed) fast forward button is not in the spirit of your responsibility to the advertisers.

Advertisers proffer programming to you in exchange for your agreed-to exposure to their included commercials. You are bound by an implied contract by having chosen to watch the programming in the first place.

If you don't like that idea, don't watch the programming. Your choice.

The same programming, with commercials not included, is almost always available for a price, at a later time. The programming has a greater dollar value without the commercials and you are not paying fair value for the programming under those terms, therefore you have no right to circumvent them.

Obviously no one's restricting your right to bathroom or kitchen breaks, and there is as yet no quiz on the commercials' content should your attention wander. But deliberately employing circumventing mechanisms such as the (soon to be outlawed) fast forward button is not in the spirit of your responsibility to the advertisers.